Compliance index

General

• Letter of transmittal
• Table of contents
• Alphabetical index (PDF 231KB)
• Glossary and abbreviations list
• Contact officer(s)
  About this report | Appendix 4 | Appendix 5
• Internet home page address and internet address for report

Clerk’s review

• Review by the Clerk

Departmental overview

• Overview description of department
• Role and functions
• Organisational structure
• Outcome and office structure
• Where outcome and program structures differ from portfolio budget statements or other portfolio statements accompanying any other additional appropriation bills (other portfolio statements), details of variation and reasons for change
  N/A
• Portfolio structure
  N/A

Report on performance

• Review of performance during the year in relation to programs and contribution to outcomes
• Actual performance in relation to deliverables and performance indicators set out in portfolio budget statements or other portfolio statements
  Clerk's Office | Table Office | Procedure Office | Committee Office | Black Rod's Office
• Where performance targets differ from the portfolio budget statements, details of both former and new targets, and reasons for the change
  N/A
• Narrative discussion and analysis of performance
• Trend information
• Significant changes in nature of principal functions/services
  None
• Performance of purchaser/provider arrangements
  None
• Factors, events or trends influencing departmental performance
  Overview | Clerk's Office | Table Office | Procedure Office | Committee Office | Black Rod's Office
• Contribution of risk management in achieving objectives
• Social inclusion outcomes
  N/A
• Performance against service charter customer service standards, complaints data, and the department’s response to complaints
• Discussion and analysis of the department’s financial performance
  Clerk's review | Management of financial resources
• Discussion of any significant changes from the prior year from budget or anticipated to have a significant impact on future operations
• Agency resource statement and summary resource tables by outcome

Management and accountability

• Corporate governance
  • Agency head’s certification that agency complies with the Commonwealth Fraud Control Guidelines
  • Statement of the main corporate governance practices in place
  • Names of the senior executive and their responsibilities
  • Senior management committees and their roles
  • Corporate and operational planning and associated performance reporting and review
  • Approach adopted to identifying areas of significant financial or operational risk
  • Policy and practices on the establishment and maintenance of appropriate ethical standards
  • How nature and amount of remuneration for SES officers is determined
• External scrutiny
  • Significant developments in external scrutiny
  • Judicial decisions and decisions of administrative tribunals
  • Reports by the Auditor-General, a parliamentary committee or the Commonwealth Ombudsman
• Management of human resources
  • Assessment of effectiveness in managing and developing human resources to achieve departmental objectives
  • Workforce planning, staff turnover and retention
  • Impact and features of enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements
  • Training and development undertaken and its impact
  • Work health and safety performance
  • Productivity gains
  • Statistics on staffing
  • Enterprise or collective agreements, individual flexibility arrangements, determinations, common law contracts and Australian workplace agreements
  • Performance pay
• Assessment of effectiveness of assets management
• Assessment of purchasing against core policies and principles
• Consultants
  • Summary statement
  • Statement that information on contracts and consultancies is available through AusTender website
  • Absence of provisions in contracts allowing access by the Auditor-General
    None
  • Contracts exempt from the AusTender
    None

Financial statements

Other information

• Work health and safety (schedule 2, part 4 of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011)
• Advertising and market research (section 311A of the Commonwealth Electoral Act 1918) and statement on advertising campaigns
• Ecologically sustainable development and environmental performance (section 516A of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999)
• Compliance with the agency’s obligations under the Carer Recognition Act 2010
  N/A
• Grant programs
  None
• Disability reporting – explicit and transparent reference to agency-level information available through other reporting mechanisms
  N/A but see Disability action plan
• Information Publication Scheme statement
• Correction of material errors in previous annual report
  None
• Compliance index